Database error ?

[FirestormMike]

Couldn't access the forum at all last night after 10-ish, kept saying there has been a "database error" please refresh your browser - which did nothing. It's just done it again, but this time I got in on the 3rd attempt

[grotbag]

dunno Mike ................

[FirestormMike]

it's taking ages for some pages to load too, everything else is ok

[grotbag]

I quite often get a page load error which takes forever on the re-try / re-send but have found that if I open a new browser it's fine, don't know why it happens though

[Spree]

Possibly a hacking attempt looking at the logs, if this happens the mysql server shuts down as a safety measure to halt it. The other thing is that the database was overloaded in some way - same thing happens

[deano]

we had the same problem last night for an hour or so . . .

[Spree]

Anyone coming on the site would have had the same problems Deano, I have contacted the host and they are working on it as we speak. Looks like it was a server fault at their end

Originally Posted by Spree

Anyone coming on the site would have had the same problems Deano, I have contacted the host and they are working on it as we speak. Looks like it was a server fault at their end

As far as I know, MySQL doesn't have a process where-by it shuts down in the event it detects an "attack", simply because it wouldn't know what an attack is, really.

[grotbag]

Originally Posted by Spree

Possibly a hacking attempt looking at the logs, if this happens the mysql server shuts down as a safety measure to halt it. The other thing is that the database was overloaded in some way - same thing happens

Originally Posted by mtcrilly

As far as I know, MySQL doesn't have a process where-by it shuts down in the event it detects an "attack", simply because it wouldn't know what an attack is, really.

how did you get access to the log Are you our possible hacker

[MegaWilhelm]

Sounds like a denial of service attack.